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Positive combinatorial formulae for involution matrix loci and orbit harmonics

Combinatorics 2025-10-07 v4

Abstract

Let Mn,a\mathcal{M}_{n,a} be the set consisting of involutions in symmetric group Sn\mathfrak{S}_n with exactly aa fixed points and apply the orbit harmonics method to obtain a graded Sn\mathfrak{S}_n-module R(Mn,a)R(\mathcal{M}_{n,a}). Liu, Ma, Rhoades, and Zhu figured out a signed combinatorial formula for the graded Frobenius image grFrob(R(Mn,a);q)\mathrm{grFrob}(R(\mathcal{M}_{n,a});q) of R(Mn,a)R(\mathcal{M}_{n,a}). Our goal is to cancel these signs. Finally, we find two positive combinatorial formulae for grFrob(R(Mn,a);q)\mathrm{grFrob}(R(\mathcal{M}_{n,a});q). As an application, we deduce a series of Sn\mathfrak{S}_n-equivariant isomorphisms between graded components R(Mn,a)dR(\mathcal{M}_{n,a})_d and R(Mn,a)dR(\mathcal{M}_{n,a^{\prime}})_d for some integers aaa\neq a^{\prime} and dd. Our positive formulae also yield potential attempts to find a linear basis for R(Mn,a)R(\mathcal{M}_{n,a}) and a statistic stat:Mn,aZ0\mathrm{stat}:\mathcal{M}_{n,a}\rightarrow\mathbb{Z}_{\ge0} to interpret the Hilbert series Hilb(R(Mn,a);q)\mathrm{Hilb}(R(\mathcal{M}_{n,a});q) of R(Mn,a)R(\mathcal{M}_{n,a}).

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@article{arxiv.2507.11747,
  title  = {Positive combinatorial formulae for involution matrix loci and orbit harmonics},
  author = {Hai Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.11747},
  year   = {2025}
}

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14 pages

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